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How popular is “Gaylon” in the USA?

Number of people named “Gaylon” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Gaylon” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Gaylon” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Gaylon” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Gaylon” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Gaylon” by birth year

This chart shows how “Gaylon” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1912 5 0.00000506 5 -100%
1913 5 0.000004397 5 -100%
1914 12 0.000008473 12 -100%
1915 14 0.00000764 14 -100%
1916 14 0.000007237 14 -100%
1917 9 0.000004485 9 -100%
1918 14 0.000006448 14 -100%
1919 21 0.000009951 21 -100%
1920 12 0.000005304 12 -100%
1921 15 0.000006425 15 -100%
1922 12 0.000005242 12 -100%
1923 20 0.000008686 20 -100%
1924 30 0.000012597 30 -100%
1925 25 0.000010714 25 -100%
1926 17 0.000007404 17 -100%
1927 23 0.000009917 23 -100%
1928 21 0.000009288 21 -100%
1929 32 0.000014597 32 -100%
1930 34 0.000015293 34 -100%
1931 29 0.000013781 29 -100%
1932 29 0.000013736 29 -100%
1933 40 0.000020006 5 35 -75%
1934 42 0.000020223 42 -100%
1935 52 0.000024882 52 -100%
1936 61 0.000029361 61 -100%
1937 62 0.000029099 10 52 -68%
1938 63 0.000028474 63 -100%
1939 56 0.000025415 5 51 -82%
1940 87 0.000037782 6 81 -86%
1941 77 0.000031604 10 67 -74%
1942 67 0.000024526 67 -100%
1943 80 0.000028343 6 74 -85%
1944 61 0.000022676 61 -100%
1945 53 0.000019978 5 48 -81%
1946 84 0.000026289 7 77 -83%
1947 90 0.000024984 7 83 -84%
1948 84 0.00002433 9 75 -79%
1949 102 0.00002927 8 94 -84%
1950 103 0.0000294 10 93 -81%
1951 96 0.00002606 7 89 -85%
1952 77 0.000020274 14 63 -64%
1953 84 0.000021798 9 75 -79%
1954 96 0.000024116 9 87 -81%
1955 78 0.000019427 78 -100%
1956 89 0.000021586 7 82 -84%
1957 67 0.000015944 6 61 -82%
1958 86 0.000020804 5 81 -88%
1959 88 0.000021164 9 79 -80%
1960 74 0.000017815 6 68 -84%
1961 63 0.000015209 9 54 -71%
1962 77 0.000019081 9 68 -77%
1963 68 0.00001718 5 63 -85%
1964 55 0.000014148 6 49 -78%
1965 59 0.000016274 9 50 -69%
1966 52 0.000014961 9 43 -65%
1967 39 0.000011488 39 -100%
1968 47 0.000013912 47 -100%
1969 46 0.000013236 5 41 -78%
1970 50 0.000013864 50 -100%
1971 44 0.000012819 44 -100%
1972 43 0.000013681 43 -100%
1973 40 0.000013259 40 -100%
1974 22 0.000007237 22 -100%
1975 41 0.000013579 6 35 -71%
1976 23 0.00000758 23 -100%
1977 32 0.000010074 32 -100%
1978 26 0.000008192 26 -100%
1979 23 0.000006913 23 -100%
1980 26 0.000007548 26 -100%
1981 23 0.000006649 23 -100%
1982 27 0.000007697 27 -100%
1983 17 0.000004909 17 -100%
1984 8 0.000002293 8 -100%
1985 10 0.000002802 10 -100%
1986 19 0.000005341 19 -100%
1987 11 0.000003051 11 -100%
1988 21 0.000005683 21 -100%
1989 23 0.000005983 23 -100%
1990 14 0.000003542 14 -100%
1991 11 0.000002824 11 -100%
1992 18 0.000004686 18 -100%
1993 13 0.000003448 13 -100%
1994 13 0.000003497 13 -100%
1995 10 0.000002731 10 -100%
1996 7 0.000001919 7 -100%
1997 12 0.00000331 12 -100%
1998 9 0.000002447 9 -100%
1999 7 0.000001895 7 -100%
2000 11 0.00000291 11 -100%
2002 9 0.000002408 9 -100%
2003 6 0.000001578 6 -100%
2004 5 0.000001309 5 -100%
2005 6 0.000001561 6 -100%
2007 7 0.000001751 7 -100%
2008 6 0.000001526 6 -100%
2018 5 0.000001422 5 -100%

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